Sidney van auken



(No ModelL) A S. VAN AUKEN.

WIRING BLIND STILBS.A

No. 294,098. l

Patented Feb. l26 1884i.`

swamps UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIDNEY VAN AUKEN, OF OSWEGO, NEW YORK.

WIRING BLIND-STILES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,098, dated February 26, 1884.

A Application filed January 2, 1884.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, SIDNEY VAN AUEEN, of Oswego, in the county of Oswego, in the St-ate ofNewA York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Gages for Setting Staples in Blind-Rods, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to the gages employed in connection with the machines generally used for driving the staples into blind-rods, said gages being moved automatically with the staple-driving machine and carrying the blind-rod intermittently the requisite distances to receive the'staples in the desired position.

Inasmuch as the distances between the staples of different rods vary with the spacing of the slats in different blinds, it is necessary to change the gage accordingly; and this has heretofore been leffected by forming a separate gage for each change in the aforesaid spacing.

It is to obviate this expense and inconvenience which my invention has for its object; and to that end it consists in the adjustable gage hereinafter fully described, and specilically set forth in the claim.

LI the annexed drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of my invention; and Fig'. 2 is a transverse section of the same, 4the stapledriving machine being omitted in the latter view.

A represents one of the usual and wellknown staple-driving machines, in which a plunger, c, operated by a lever, d, forces the staples s into the blind-rod B, arranged under said plunger.

- In front of the staple-driver A is a horizontal rail` R, arranged to slide longitudinally on a suitable support, which is usually on the table on which the machine A is mounted, and Vdoes not require an illustration here. Said rail is provided with a longitudinal groove or way, a, for the reception of the blind-rod to be stapled, and in front of this way are a series of ratchet-teeth, r fr, which are separated from each other and mounted movably on the rail It.

At the end of the series of ratchet-teeth a pendent lever, L, is pivoted, either to the rail or to the first of the teeth r.

(No model.)

the successive ratchet-teeth r r are extended rods b b, which are movably connected therewith, so that by swinging the lever L the ratchetteeth receive a longitudinal movement which carries said teeth a greater or less distance apart and at such a ratio as to render the distances between them invariably uniform. The end of the rods b which passes through the ratchet-teeth 1' is bent downward at the rea-r of the teeth and made to enter a longitudinal groove, e, in the rail It, as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings, therebyholding the ratchet-teeth on the rail. The lever L is adjustably secured in its requisite position by means of a bolt, f, which passes through a segmental slot, g, in a plate, D, irmly attached in a pendent position to the rail R, and a clamping-nut, n, on the boltt serves to fasten the lever on the plate D.

On the operating -lever d of the stapledriver A is pivoted a pawl, l?, which engages with the ratchet-teeth automatically with the operation of said lever.

By setting the ratchet-teeth 1' r a distance apart to correspond to the distance required between the staples to be driven, the pawl P is caused to move the rail R, so as to carry the blind-rod intermittently under the plunger c of the staple-driver A, and allow the latter to apply the staples to the rod in the required position.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with thestaple-driver A, provided with a pawl, I?, the within-described gage, consisting of the rail R, provided with the way a for the reception of the blind-rod, a series of separate rack-teeth, r r, mounted movably on said rail, the pivoted lever L, connected with the respective rack-teeth by a series of rods, b b, and a clamping device for conning the lever in its requisite position, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, i'n the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 11th day of December, 1883.

SIDNEY VAN AUKEN. [L s] Vitnesses:

FREDERICK H. GIBBs, C. H. DUELL.

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` It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 294,098, granted February 26, 1884, Iupon the application of Sidney Vain Auken, of Oswego, New York, for an improvement iin Wiring Blind-Rods;7 an error appears requiring the following` correction, viz: The ,title of the invention was Written and printed Wiring Bli11d-Stiles,7 instead of Wt'w`1zg Blind-Rods,- and that this correction should be read in the Letters Patent, ivherever the title appears to make the same conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Office.

Signed, eountersigued, and sealed this 4th day ot March, A. D. 1884.

" M. L. JOSLYN,

Acting Secretary of the Interior.

[sEAL] Oountersigned BENJ. BUTTERWoRTH,

Commissioner of Patents. 

